"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد IV." [ظ‎‎١‎٧] (٦٥٢/٣٩)

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Kalat through Kej, but since then the State had been independent. In
1868 Boss mentions the Jadgals as acknowledging the chief of Geh, the
contiguous district to the west, which at that moment, after many changes
and political fluctuations, was held by Mir ’Abdullah Gichki for the Per
sian Government. The Persian Boundary Commission of 1871, under Major-
General Goldsmid, formally handed over the districts to Persia, by demar
cating the frontier line to east of them. It is true they had then been for
some time under Persian management, and had been re-united to Sarbaz,
being placed under the rule of Hasan Khan Nahrui, chief of that place,
to facilitate revenue collections.
The greater part of Bahu and Dashtiari consists of fairly fertile and well
i watered plains, but little elevated above the sea-level. There are, how
ever, various hills and ranges, running generally from east-south-east to
west-north-west. Such are the Pitag Kuh (q.v.), about the centre of
the district and the Ripak Kuh, more to the south, on the right bank of the
Kaju river. The whole left bank of the Bahu river {q.v.) is also hilly, the
country there being covered by the spurs of Jambki Kuh and ranges
connected with it. The north-west corner of the district traversed by
[ Lovett in 1871 is cut up by small ranges, parallel to the Baga-i-Band
range.
The Bahu river, known in its upper part asthe Sarbdz (g'.c.) descends
through the eastern part of the district, traversing Bahu proper. Below
Bahu Kalat (q.v.) it bifurcates, and each branch repeatedly re-dividing
itself,makes this tract in ordinary wea' her not hing but a congeries of stream
lets, and in floods a vast sheet of wat r. The district it flows through is
called Sisad, or the hundred threads, probably from the multiplication of
the water channe’s. Sisad is divided from Dashtiari by one of the prin
cipal! treamlets of the Bahu river, at a spot where a sandstone hillock
called Char-gul-ki-Dikir indicates the boundary. About here the Bahu
receives an affluent, the Kaju, also known as the Dashtiari, which irrigates
the Dashtiari district in the same manner as the Bahu does Sisad. The
Kaju (q.v.) descends in a south-easterly direction from Qasrqand', and
above Dashtiari passes through Kughi. Thus Baku and Sisad may be said
to be in the Bahu river, while Kughi and Dashtiari are on the Kaju.* The
united rivers then pursue a south-east course to the sea, which they reach
in Gwatar Bay, at the port of that name. Dashtiari and Sisad together
may be considered the westerly extension of the Dasht plain (q.v.).
These last named districts are, as may be supposed, well-watered. The
i streams are lined with a fringe of Fanesian mimosa, date palms, and
tamarisk. On the numerous Small streams and channels of the Bahu and
Kaju are various villages and hamlets, as well as a few others in the plains.
The names of the principal ones are Bahu Kalat, Miri Bazar, Sisad. Nau,
Baji, Behla, Churak, Chakat, Patli Kalat, etc. Concerning most of these,
some little information will be found under their own names. Bahu Kalat
* There is no definite information as to where the Kaju and Bahu rivers join, and
the latest maps (1897) are left blank on this point. Dashtiari, or Miri Bazar is
about 6 miles west of the present Bahu Channel, and in 1900 Mr. Janes does not
mention the Kaju in connection with this place. ^